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Eric Klien's Lifeboat Foundation Lev Navrozov In the past few years, I have received about 1,000 e-mails from Internet readers highly appreciative of my columns and deeply concerned about the mortal danger to the West of Sino-Russian post-nuclear superweapons. Some of these readers call me a "voice in the wilderness" and beg me to continue waking up the democratic West. A "voice in the wilderness"? But what about these e-mails from all over the West and my appearances on radio programs? My Internet readers are right! Gone are the times when one individual, such as Voltaire, was more audible than all governments. In the United States today, it is the majority of the electorate who elects the president, and he alone becomes nationally and internationally audible for four or eight years. It is necessary to enlighten the majority of the electorate in order for the president and Congress to adopt national policies that would prevent "superdeath" as a result of Sino-Russian superweapons. This is what the Lifeboat Foundation is for. It is a nonprofit organization, including over 100 of the world's best thinkers, intellectuals, and scientists, expected to be audible as a "multiple Voltaire," consisting of more than 100 Voltaires, organized as a single nonprofit foundation, to save us as a lifeboat saves those on a sinking ship. For the time being, the geostrategic mentality of most Americans (and most Westerners) is based on absurd delusions. For example, over three years ago the U.S.-led Coalition pre-emptively invaded Iraq on the basis of false intelligence data. Predictably, there began a Sunni guerrilla war against the "pre-emptive invaders." It is easy to call it "terror," and the U.S.-led war in Iraq "the war on terror." It is even easier to pretend that if Hitler or Hu Jintao calls himself "government," his war cannot be a giant-scale "terrorist act," such as Hu's superannihilation of the West by Sino-Russian superweapons. Neither the U.S. government nor the U.S. Congress can abolish the constant rate of genetic suicides in every country (about 30,000 suicides a year in the United States, or 0.01 percent of the population). Nor can they forbid Islam to "sublimate" such genetic suicides into the "jihad" killings of "infidels," while in the West a genetic suicide has often been "sublimated" into the denouement of unrequited love.
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Zarqawi was a Jordanian, helping the Sunni guerrillas with his jihad out of Islamic solidarity. It is an absurd illusion to think that the killing of him will intimidate Islamic suicidal killers. On the contrary, the U.S.-led war in Iraq, including the killing of Zarqawi, means a greater number of Islamic suicidal killers of Westerners. The overall number of followers of Islam on our planet is estimated to be about 1 billion, and it is an absurd delusion to believe that the number of Islamic suicidal killers cannot increase to 100,000 a year, the peak of the genetic suicide curve. Given such delusions of most Americans, the United States may expect nothing but "superdeath" unless "the multiple Voltaire" makes such delusions laughable for most Americans. I asked Eric Klien if there is some information he would like me to include in this column, and here is what he e-mailed to me: Most people are under the impression that The War on Terror is being won. They see the dead face of Zarqawi, look at the low death tolls in the war so far and assume all is well. They are making a fatal miscalculation. They are assuming that the weaponry available to terrorists will not improve with time. They are wrong. Any day now, terrorists will start using bioweapons, and nanoweapons will be available to them in a decade or two. With bioweapons, 90% of the world's population could be exterminated in one blow. With nanoweapons, 100% of all life including all viruses and bacteria could be exterminated in one blow. Life hangs on a knife's edge, and few seem to care.Note that Eric Klien, the founder, president, and CEO of the Lifeboat Foundation, personally wrote the above, sent it, and signed it without indicating any rank or title of his, which any "normal bureaucrat" would have done. But the Lifeboat Foundation is not "a normal bureaucracy." It is a lifeboat saving us from "superdeath" – it is above any "normal bureaucracy," which, preoccupied with vanities, hierarchies, promotions, bonuses, and pensions, often does hardly anything else.
From Economist.com on June 15 we learn that some laboratories that developed nuclear weapons, such as Los Alamos National Laboratory, have been resting on their laurels of 60 years ago. On June 11, 2006, Eric invited me to join the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board: Lev,I was happy to join. We at our nonprofit Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, Inc. (of which I am the president) believe that it is necessary to wake up, via national TV programs and nationally or even internationally successful films, the majority of the American (and indeed, Western) people to the danger of "superdeath," with the heads of state and government and members of legislatures complying with the new vision of the majority. This enlightenment requires money – donations. So we need a fundraiser. But the candidates we spoke with told us that they do not want a commission on the money they will collect, but an annual salary right away. The size? On the order of $1 million. Saul Bellow, a member of our Advisory Board, was said to have received $3 million as the advance for his novel. But he had worked on the novel for five years, and he became a world-famous novelist after decades of dire poverty. Anyway, he could not donate $1 million a year, since not so long ago he died. But given a modicum of money, is a nationally and internationally successful film about superdeath possible? Imagine that uncanny world of Sino-Russian superweapons shown in the film. Not the fantasy of Michael Crichton's "Prey," but that new monstrous world of superweapons, unknown to nearly all Americans. Not occurring through an accident at an American lab as in "Prey," but being developed by the mammoth of China since 1986 and now in cooperation with Russia, which was engaged in the development of superweapons way back in the 1950s and 1960s. Crichton's absurd delusion is that superweapons, such as molecular nano assemblers, are mortally dangerous to the United States not when they are in the hands of Hu, but when they are in the hands of U.S. scientists. According to his absurd delusion, it was the Manhattan Project, not Hitler, having a monopoly on nuclear weapons that was mortally dangerous to the Untied States (and Britain). A good film must have a personal human line. My biography of the Lifeboat Foundation contains the following two paragraphs, based on my Internet columns: As an example from the new vast uncanny world of post-nuclear superweapons, Navrozov took nanoweapons. He declared K. Eric Drexler to be the Einstein of nanotechnology. Specifically, Navrozov is comparing Einstein's famous warning to President Roosevelt about the viability of atomic weapons to Drexler's 1986 book, ‘Engines of Creation,' where he warns about the viability of nanoweapons. Navrozov is concerned, however, that Drexler's warning has been spurned and viciously ridiculed by the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), an organization that Navrozov compares to the Manhattan Project as far as government allocations are concerned. But as Navrozov notes, the irony in all this is that the NNI has denied the military aspects of nanotechnology, and to Drexler and the Foresight Nanotech Institute he co-founded in 1986, the U.S. Congress has been refusing to allocate a cent.A human tragedy, the tragedy of Eric Drexler, the founder of nanotechnology, is hidden in these two paragraphs. Galileo was forced to renounce his discovery that the Earth revolves about its axis and around the Sun, not the Sun around the Earth. His discovery was a heresy. Drexler's heresy was Chapter 11 of his 1986 book. This chapter described the viability of nano superweapons, bringing superdeath. Galileo's heresy was an astronomical abstraction. Nobody suffered as a result of his renouncement. Drexel's renouncement meant the superdeath of his country and his civilization. But how can a scientist live without a salary? In despair, in 2004 Drexler gave up his chairmanship of the Foresight Institute which he founded in 1986) to free the Institute from the grave suspicion of the U.S. Congress that the Institute was developing nanoweapons. This has not helped. The Congress still won't give a cent to the Institute. The above is the bare historical truth. There is no need for the film to keep to it literally. The reviewers of my book "The Education of Lev Navrozov" (Harper & Row, 1975) compared me to Mark Twain, Voltaire, Orwell, and Dostoyevsky, and I certainly can squeeze out for the script of the film all the human agony that the above human tragedy contains. As for the superdeath of the West, let the audiences realize that the (willful) blindness of Western governments and legislatures will cause it unless their eyes are opened by the Lifeboat Foundation, the Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, and/or other such organizations. You can e-mail me at navlev@cloud9.net
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